salt years by sigalit landau at the museum der moderne salzburg art

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is presenting a comprehensive survey of israeli sculptor and video installation artist Sigalit Landau titled salt years. Born in Jerusalem (1969), Landau is one of israel’s most prominent contemporary artists of her generation. Presented at both of the museum’s venues — Rupertinum and Mönchsberg — the exhibition is the artist’s first solo show at a museum in the german-speaking countries. 

 

For over fifteen years, the dead sea has been a source of inspiration and a laboratory for Sigalit Landau’s videos, photos and salt sculptures. Her site-specific work, in a variety of mediums, relates to private and collective memory, archaic and utopic myths, and to present-day issues of the human condition. By using a diverse range of materials that interact with the human body, Landau weaves the social with the intimate, the historical with the private, and the local with narratives of epic scale.

 

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